In pursuit of new means to terrorize couples from displaying affection in public places, the hardliners have now threatened to shoot
clippings of couples involved in public display of affection (PDA) and place them on internet. Such groups have p...

With a view to checking human trafficking, the Government plans to introduce biometric passport system that will include finger-printing, by 2010, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today.

PUNE: According to the annual statistics released by city-based Muktaa HIV/AIDS helpline, a staggering 50 per cent of its 12,477 callers in the last one year were in the age group of 15-25 years, with a majority of them graduate and post-graduate ...

New Delhi: Indo-Pak peace talks might have been badly hit after the Mumbai attacks, but that has still not deterred Pakistani patients from heading to India. Many are still heading to India fearless to get respite from all their health problems.

Rare footage of the Royal Indian Navy seamen from World War II. This is part of the news reels released by the US navy as part of its publicity efforts. Some of the seamen's caps bear HMIS Dalhousie as the title. Dalhousie was a training institution.

Bangalore (IANS): Science and technology has seen a steady growth in India this year despite the economic slowdown, thanks to resurgence of youngsters' interest in research and development, a top scientist said in Bangalore on Thursday.

It was roses all the way for Congress president Sonia Gandhi on her 62nd birthday on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was among the prominent leaders who rang her up and greeted her on the occasion.

NEW DELHI: It has been two days since the Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan made insensitive remarks about the slain commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who lost his life in the Mumbai terror attacks.

PANAJI: A woman, cheated into a marriage with an HIV positive man, filed for divorce as soon as she learned about his HIV status as she didn’t wish to live the rest of her life with the man who kept her in the dark about the same. Women’s liberati...

The Asia AIDS Commission report released in 2008 mentions that the Asian epidemic will be driven by men who visit sex workers. According to the report, Asia has some 75 million men who visit sex workers. Fifty million women are married to such men...

CHENNAI: In a tragic incident which reinforces the need for better care for the mentally ill in the country, four women undergoing treatment at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Ayanavaram here died on Friday, presumably due to waterborne di...

NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, the health ministry along with the Diabetics Foundation of India and 20 other national health organizations released the first India-specific guidelines for prevention and management of obesity and metabolic syndrome.